Celebrate fifty years of films with The Cinema Arts Centre

The 1970s were a golden era of filmmaking so it’s fitting that AARP presents a film series celebrating their golden anniversary. The free event also marks a community theater celebrating its 50th!

The Cinema Arts Centre was founded with a borrowed film projector and a sheet hung on the wall of a dance studio in 1973. It’s grown to be an internationally renowned art house theatre. Advanced registration is required for these films, but you don’t have to be an AARP member.

Join us for a free movie and learn about what AARP is doing in your community — especially about Social Security — at a staffed AARP table before each movie.

Advanced registration is required via the links below.

Location: Cinema Arts Center
423 Park Avenue
Hungington, NY 11743

1. The Great Gatsby

Tuesday, July 9 at 1:30 p.m.

This adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel starred Robert Redford as millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby wants to win back the love of socialite Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), now married to "old money" Tom Buchanan (Bruce Dern).

Registration is closed.

2. The Longest Yard

Wednesday, August 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes, and the guards are the heavies. Burt Reynolds plays one-time pro quarterback Paul Crewe, who is now behind bars. The sadistic warden (Eddie Albert) taunts Crewe into helping his semiprofessional team of guardsmen.

Register: https://events.aarp.org/longestyard8212024

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3. That's Entertainment

Thursday, September 26 at 1:30 p.m.

Join hosts Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, Liza Minnelli and more in a celebration of MGM musicals featuring scenes from such American classics as Singin' In the Rain, Show Boat and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

Register: https://events.aarp.org/thatsentertain9262024

4. Young Frankenstein

Thursday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Mel Brooks gives the old horror classic a riotous comic twist! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick (Gene Wilder) inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With help from hunchbacked sidekick, Igor, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestor.

Register: https://events.aarp.org/frankenstein10242024

5. Earthquake 

Tuesday, November 19 at 1:30 p.m.

A seismologist develops a method for predicting earthquakes, but too late to save the people of Los Angeles from a 9.9 on the Richter Scale catastrophe in director Mark Robson’s action-packed entry in the 1970s disaster boom. Charlton Heston leads the cast of familiar faces trying to survive amid the falling debris, but the film’s real stars are the Oscar-winning visual effects team.

Register: https://events.aarp.org/earthquake11192024

6. The Godfather Part II

Thursday, December 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Part II of the Godfather trilogy continues the saga of the Corleone Family. The film chronicles both the rise of Don Vito Corleone (Robert DeNiro replacing Marlon Brando) to Mafia chief in the early 1900s in the Little Italy section of New York City, as well as the career of Corleone's son Michael (Al Pacino). Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

Register: https://events.aarp.org/godfather212192024

The Cinema Arts Centre (CAC) is at 423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743.

CAC attracts over 100,000 visitors annually. It’s a vital community center and screens first-run American and international independent films as well as larger studio releases on three screens, seven days-a-week, as well as hundreds of special events each year.

* These are not AARP events. Any information you provide to the host organization shall be governed by their privacy policy. Show images seen here, are all provided and approved by the Cinema Arts Centre.

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